I found a blog that already lists links where you can access to watch the rumble online free. I can’t guarantee they will be working on Sunday November 15 morning but its a good start.

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Your TV functions just like a giant monitor for your PC. Hook it up to the Internet and then you can watch YouTube videos, view photo albums, play games, surf the Internet. Whatever you see on your PC, you'll see full-size on your TV!

How to watch internet video on your TV

I thought it would be helpful to describe how to hook your PC or laptop up to your television. There are also come TV boxes at CDRKing that you can buy referenced later in the article.

If you have an older PC or laptop, and an older TV, most likely what you need is an S-video cable.

If you have a newer PC or laptop and an older TV, DVI to S-video is more likely what you need.

Lastly, if you have a new PC or laptop, and a new TV (like a flat screen LCD TV) – you probably need a DVI to HDMI cable.

Hooking up your PC to your TV can be a pain. Here is another article I found about internet set top boxes.

One that looks promising that I didn’t mention before is the “vunow“. The vunow claims to offer NBC content, but I couldn’t figure out where to actually buy it – so it may not be released yet.

Your Laptop

Most people don’t know that you can actually connect most laptops to your TV and display your screen in full-sized glory. Once you’ve done this there is no need to stream content to another device, or have any go between, you are simply turning your television into a giant monitor to display whatever content it is you feel the need to show, whether it be movies, music videos, YouTube or anything else. The only drawback to this method is it pretty much sacrafices your computer to do nothing other than showing the media you’ve selected.

To do it you’ll usually need a S-Video cable, and something like the Belkin produced cable I pictured here. You plug the 2.5 mm end of that cable into your earphone jack and the audio ends into your TV input. You then run the S-Video between the corresponding jacks and switch your video output to an external source. Each computer is slightly different in how it does these steps, so make sure to consult your setup guide.

My comment, some tvs accept a direct connection from your computer (see this NY Times article)

Use our cable selection guide to choose your PC to TV cable:

Look at the jacks on your computer and television. You may have several options. Then use this chart to determine which cable will fit both your PC and TV and provide you with the best video quality. Email us if you have any questions. We're here to help.

My TV only has a coaxial cable input:

If you have an older TV with only a coaxial cable input, you can purchase an "RF Modulator" in the electronics section of your local Walmart or Target store for about $20. This device will provide you with both S-Video and RCA Composite (yellow, red and white) inputs.

RF Modulator for televisions with coaxial cable input only

It's time to bring the Internet into your living room. Almost all new televisions available for sale today are of the flat panel, high-definition variety. You just can't find the old tubes anymore. HDTVs are also commonly known as LCD or plasma TVs depending on the screen construction. Most of these new HDTVs are equipped with either HDMI (high-definition multimedia interface) and/or "PC Input." PC Input is another word for the standard computer VGA monitor connection. Almost all PCs have VGA outputs, and many new PCs are now equipped with HDMI outputs. So if you are considering the purchase of a new HDTV, make sure it has a "PC Input" jack. And if you are considering the purchase of a new PC, make sure it has an HDMI output. You can easily connect your PC/laptop/notebook computer to your HDTV with our HDMI cable or specialty VGA with Audio cable and use it as a high-resolution monitor. If you have an older TV you can probably use our specialty S-Video with Audio to Composite cable. If your PC has an Internet connection, you will now have the Internet on your TV. Our HDMI and VGA cables both support high definition video (1920 x 1080 pixels) while our S-Video cables support up to 704 x 480 pixels (standard definition). All of our specialty PC to TV cables also include built-in stereo audio, so you won't need a separate cable for sound. Please note: you don't need a set-top-box (STB) such as the Roku Netflix Player or Apple TV to watch movies on your TV. Simply connect your PC/laptop/notebook computer to your TV with our inexpensive cable and you won't be limited in where you can go or what you can do. http://pctvcables.com/select-your-pc-to-tv-cable.html

- Click on Start, Control Panel.

- Click on Display

- Click on Settings

- Slide the "Screen resolution" area slider bar toward Less until the setting reads 800 x 600. OK, you may not like how your screen looks at this setting after usig high-res settings, but you'll certainly enjoy your DVD on your TV!!! You can always change the res back when not playing DVDs.

- Click Apply

- Press the FN key and your computer's corresponding "F-number" key. For instance, on some Toshiba laptops you press the FN+F5 simultaneously four times to get the TV-Out setting. The "FN" key is a short-cut key on most laptop keyboards. Note, the combination keys that you may have to press depend on your laptop. Here's a brief list: Acer Fn+F3; Dell Fn+F8; Fujitsu Fn+F5; Gateway Fn+F3; HP Fn+F5; IBM Fn+F1 or +F3, +F7 +F8; NEC Fn+F3; Panasonic Fn+F2; Samsung Fn+F4 or F5 or F6; Sharp Fn+F5; Sony Fn+F7; and Toshiba Fn+F5 or +F7.

- Start playing your movie or presentation.

- There may be additional adjustments that may be required. If the TV display is shifted to the right with a black vertical bar on the left side you will have to perform additional settings. Joshua T. has the following suggestions: "The computer runs Windows XP Pro and has a "Radeon IGP 345M", which I believe is made by ATI. Under 'Display Properties', 'Settings', 'Advanced', 'Displays', click the "TV" button, then 'Adjustments' tab. There you will find options to change the vertical/horizontal size and position. Once you have switched over to use the tv you can simply adjust these settings while you watch the display on the television to get it looking the way you like."

WATCH FREE INTERNET TELEVISION AND MOVIES

There's lots of free, quality internet television channels and movies available on the Internet. Plus many of your favorite TV shows are available on-demand. With all this do you really need to pay for satellite or cable? We recommend Hulu, Joost, Fancast and Zipityzap

For more than a decade, tech and media companies have wrestled with how to deliver digitized movies directly over the Internet to consumers: how do you get the copy-protected files from the computer to the big screen in the living room?

Photo Illustration by The New York Ti

The early answers didn’t inspire many couch potatoes to get off the sofa. You could either plug a laptop computer into your TV set (assuming the computer and the television had the right connections) or buy a box, called a media extender, for your home theater that received streaming files from your computer. Media extenders proved obstreperous and confusing: some files wouldn’t play on some extenders, the boxes were awkward to set up and movie downloads were painfully slow.

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Also read this article I am publishing today on how to hook up your TV from you laptop or computer and where to get the parts locally http://watchcomputer.blogspot.com/ Tomorrow I will publish an article where to watch the Pacman Cotto fight Sunday on your computer & how to hook it up to your tv. Free or PLDT Watchpad.

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Since then, faster broadband speeds have become more common and companies have figured how to stream videos that start in seconds, inspiring consumer electronics companies to put Internet connections into TVs, Blu-ray disc players and other devices to tap into online-movie services from the likes of Netflix and Blockbuster. It’s an end run around the limited video-on-demand offerings from cable companies and eliminates the need for a separate black box.

“This is huge,” says Dan Schinasi, a marketing manager at Samsung Electronics America. “This is what we have been waiting for.” Samsung is doubtless enthusiastic, introducing Internet connectivity on 23 different TVs, starting at $1,600 for a 40-inch LCD model and three Blu-ray players priced from $200 to $350. Indeed, the trend is that such Internet connections will rapidly become standard. According to research analysts at NPD, 12 percent of flat-panel sets sold in September in the United States had networking capabilities, up from less than 1 percent a year ago. There are now Internet-ready models from LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Sharp, Sony and Vizio.

The Samsung TVs, for example, access online movie services like Amazon Video On Demand or Blockbuster On Demand using Yahoo’s widgets, small icons that appear on the bottom of the screen and which also include popular Web services like Flickr, eBay and YouTube.

Blockbuster’s service offers movie rentals from $2.99 to $3.99, with purchases costing $7.99 to $19.99. At the moment, Blockbuster’s titles can appear in wide screen, but only in standard definition, rather than high definition. It took about 25 seconds to start up the Blockbuster service, which offered new titles like the Jack Black movie “Year One” for purchase at $19.99 and “Unmistaken Child” to rent at $3.99. When you choose a movie, the software does a quick check of your set’s connection speed and then starts playing your selection in under 10 seconds (easily beating cable video-on-demand from Time Warner in my tests). And while the cineaste in me wanted to shun anything less than HD, the standard-definition version of “Watchmen” was just fine, with instant gratification easily trumping any qualms I had about less-than-perfect image details.

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Amazon Video On Demand was comparable, although it appeared to have a larger library of choices. The company claims to have more than 50,000 titles, with at least 2,000 of those in high definition. “Away We Go” was available to rent in HD for $4.99 (a standard-definition rental was $3.99). HD rentals were sharper and crisper to my eye, although a free stream of an episode of “30 Rock” in HD looked softer than the original live HD broadcast.

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Other sets also offer Yahoo widgets and streaming movies from the Web. Sony offers the Yahoo feature on some sets and plans to offer Netflix streaming movies by the end of the year. LG Electronics has models that include Yahoo widgets and already include the online-movie services Vudu and Netflix. The former has the largest offering of HD movies to rent or own online and comes the closest in terms of picture quality and sound to true HD (1080p for the techie crowd). Rentals in Vudu’s HDX format have sharper picture details and better sound than other offerings, although I still find the downloads and streaming versions a little darker (and thus less crisp) than HD broadcasts.

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Known primarily for its by-mail movie subscription business, Netflix has become a digital movie juggernaut by streaming movies to subscribers free of charge. The same $8.99 a month you pay for a by-mail subscription entitles you to watch as many of the company’s 17,000 digitized titles as you want, as often as you want, whenever you want. Its HD offerings lack the visual clarity of Vudu’s, but Netflix is a better value and is available on many different devices in the living room — the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 consoles, a stand-alone box from Roku, and TiVo machines. So if the Netflix option appeals to you, you don’t have to buy a new TV or Blu-ray player to get it.

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But choice also means confusion: not all services are available on all devices. On some of its flat panels, Panasonic offers its own Internet services, which includes Amazon Video On Demand, but not Netflix or Blockbuster or Vudu. Samsung offers Blockbuster on its sets, but not Netflix. LG offers Netflix on its sets, but not Blockbuster. And even when they do offer the same branded service, not all the devices necessarily give you the same features.

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Netflix subscribers who use the streaming option on the XBox 360, for example, will find they can add movies to their queue from the TV screen (and they have to pay $50 a year for Microsoft’s Xbox Live Gold membership to do so). But if you want to change your streaming movie lineup on the LG or Sony sets, you’ll have to go back to your computer.

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Buyers will also find that some sets, like those from Panasonic, Samsung and Sony, require a wired Ethernet connection for Web access. (Vizio’s Internet-ready sets, due out this month, will have built-in Wi-Fi.) Samsung dealers offer an optional Wi-Fi adapter (802.11n) for just $80, and there are high-speed adapters that just plug into an electrical outlet. I connected a set using Belkin’s 200 Mbps $100 Powerline AV Starter Kit without entering any codes or doing anything other than plugging the adapters in. (My comment read the parts you can buy locally at CDRKing in the posting I have done at the end of this article)

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But we’re still a long way from being able to order any movie we want to watch whenever we want to watch it. Film studios are loathe to release what they perceive will be blockbuster DVDs in digital form, for example, until months after release, and there are many more held back by copyright issues and concerns about piracy. And even the movies you can rent digitally from Blockbuster or Amazon are often subject to the dreaded 24-hour window, which means if you don’t finish watching on the same day you started viewing it, you’ll have to pay an additional charge.

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Still, the option of streaming a movie from anywhere — Netflix, Amazon or whoever — is a major leap forward. It frees viewers from the yoke of the one-store-only approach taken by cable companies and products like Apple TV. Ultimately, it’s a liberating experience — if you think of never having to get off the couch again to pick a movie as liberating.Read original here http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/technology/personaltech/05basics.html